Fixed stars in Crater
Star	1900	2000	R A	Decl 1950	Lat	Mag	Sp
Alkes alpha	22VIR19	23VIR41	164 20 03	-18 01 56	-22 42 56	4.20	K1
epsilon	24VIR52	26VIR15	170 31 14	-10 35 05	-13 28 12	5.07	M0
Labrum delta	25VIR18	26VIR41	169 12 35	-14 30 28	-17 34 28	3.82	K0
beta	27VIR11	28VIR34	167 17 56	-22 33 09	-25 38 10	4.52	A2
theta	27VIR13	28VIR36	173 32 09	-09 31 32	-11 18 12	4.81	B9
gamma	27VIR51	29VIR14	170 35 42	-17 24 33	-19 39 56	4.14	A5
zeta	02LIB41	04LIB04	175 33 23	-18 04 22	-18 17 44	4.90	G8
eta	04LIB43	06LIB06	178 21 57	-16 52 21	-16 05 22	5.16	A0

Events in history

Volcanoes

• On August 27th, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra. - Uranus/Alkes

Environment

• Nov 25 1969 The US agrees to distort stocks of germ warfare weapons. - Pluto/Labrum

Fires

• April 23 1940, about 200 people died in a dance hall fire in Natchez, Mississippi. Neptune/Alkes
• Jan 27 1967 three astronauts die in a fire in an Apollo spacecraft during tests. Uranus/Alkes
• Oct 24 1967 Israeli artillery distress Suez oil refineries. Uranus/Labrum
• Mar 9th 1945, during World War Two, US B-29 bombers launched incendiary bomb attacks against Japan, causing widespread devastation. Jupiter/Alkes

Alcohol

• Oct 1967 Breathalyzer tests are introduced for drivers to determine how much alcohol they have consumed. Pluto/Alkes

Libraries

• April 24th 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress. Uranus/Labrum
• Jan 26th 1802, Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the US Capitol. SNode/Labrum

Events

• Capt. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, July 20th 1969 - Pluto, South Node/Alkes
• July 4th 1997 NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars, inaugurating a new era in the search for life on the Red Planet. - North Node/Alkes
• Mar 14th 1995, American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a "Soyuz" spacecraft, headed for the "Mir" space station. - Chiron/Alkes, North Node/Labrum
• Jan 9th 1968, the "Surveyor Seven" space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. - Pluto/Alkes
• May 18th 1969, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young blasted off aboard "Apollo Ten." - Pluto/Alkes, Jupiter/Labrum
• April 11th 1970, "Apollo 13" blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft; the astronauts managed to return safely.   Pluto/Labrum

• April 1st 1970, President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after January first, 1971. Pluto

• April 14th 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. Neptune/Alkes
• April 11th 1968, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior. Uranus/Labrum
• April fourth, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior, 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee. Uranus/Labrum
• First Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19th 1848 NNode/Alkes
• Aug 10 1995, Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. Chiron/Labrum

• July 1st 1968, the United States, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Uranus/Labrum
• Jan 1st 1988 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, expressed mutual hope they would reach an arms control treaty on strategic weapons within six months. SNode/Labrum
• Mar 5th 1970, a nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it. Pluto/Labrum
• Mar 25th 1957, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. Jupiter/Labrum

• First atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Aug 6th 1945 Jupiter/Alkes
• April 26th 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a one-megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar." Uranus April 1st 1970, President Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after January first, 1971. Pluto/Labrum
• April 26th 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a one-megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar." Uranus/Labrum
• April 20th 1940, RCA publicly demonstrated its new and powerful electron microscope. Neptune/Alkes
• April 12th 1988 The US Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent to Harvard University for a genetically engineered mouse, the first time a patent was granted for an animal life form. SNode
• Alexander Graham Bell Scientist, Bell dedicated his early life to education, and, became a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University in 1873, teaching deaf-mutes. He produced the first telephonic transmission on 5 June 1875, and patented the telephone the following year. Moon/Labrum
• Mar 27th 1884, the first long-distance telephone call was made, between Boston and New York. Uranus/Labrum
• July 29 1968, Pope John Paul issues the encyclical Humane Vitae denouncing the use of artificial contraception. - Uranus/Labrum
• Luther posts the 95 theses at Augsburg, Oct 31 1517 Jupiter/Alkes

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